The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

propelled through valves that are diseased, and to
send the life-Uood g^uigling back upon the heart,
or along ossified arteries that quiver not with life
at its touch. And to the reader of such disjointed
Rabbinic quotations there is this further source of
misunderstanding, that the form and «ou7u2 of
words is so often the same as that of the sayingsof
Jesus, however difierent their spirit. For,
necessarily, the wine—^be it new or old—made in
Judaea, comes to us in Palestinian vessels. The
new teaching, to be historically true, must have
employed the old forms and spoken the old
language. But the ideas underiying terms equally
employed by Jesus and the teachers of Israel are,
in everything that concerns the relation of souls to
God, so absolutely different as not to bear
comparison. Whence otherwise the enmity and
opposition to Jesus from the first, and not only
after His Divine claim had been pronounced?
These two, starting from principles alien and
hostile, follow opposite directions, and lead to
other goals. He who has thirsted and quenched his
thirst at the living fount of Christ's Teaching, can